Earl Norman

The Earl Norman books are becoming extremely rare, and publishers don’t seem to be interested in reprinting the series. The only way some of us may ever have all the stories is for collectors to scan and type the stories into PDF to swap with other collectors. I have already completed PDFs of HANG ME IN HONG KONG and KILL ME IN ROPPONGI. I am working on KILL ME IN YOKOSUKA. If other collectors would do the same for some of the other books, we could eventually have PDFs of all ten books. Why not help? I can be contacted at fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Brannan's Chase

Brandon's Chase by Stephen Cord: Joe
Brannan and his boat, the Betty, are
hired by three university types to search for possible areas to create
artificial reefs along Thailand’s coast; however, it turns out they are really
CIA. The Navy has lost a super weapon, and it is thought to be somewhere near
the coast of Pattaya. Problems arise when a local Korean smuggler steals the
weapon before the team can retrieve it, and now it’s heading for China en route
to North Korea.

There is
lots of action from the very beginning, as the Koreans kill two CIA agents and
capture the third, framing Brannan for the murders. Joe is forced to run before
the Thai police can arrest him, and now he needs to take the CIA woman away
from her Korean captors to prove his innocence, but that isn’t going to be
easy.

The Brannan series is
the best new men’s action novels I have read in a long time. The author’s
writing is fast, and the story flows smoothly, with plenty of action and
suspense to keep the reader on the edge of their seats. Even though it appears
the author may have killed off one of the more interesting characters in this story,
I’m not totally convinced we’ve seen the last of North Korea’s highly trained
Korean agent, Sook-Ju. I would certainly like to see her return in a future
story, as she almost took the story away from the lead character. The read is
definitely fun, and highly recommended.